Re: [OFFTOPIC]l7-filter like tool for *BSD

[Joerg Sonnenberger <joerg@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Mon, Nov 06, 2006 at 07:07:43PM +0100, Gergo Szakal wrote:
> http://l7-filter.sourceforge.net/
> 
> This thingy is for netfilter and it's an app layer packet classifier. 
> Does anyone know of such a tool for *BSD?

Not any I am aware of. It should be that that layer 7 filtering is
generally extremely expensive and often quite unreliable. We
investigated it here for traffic shapping of 50Mbit/s and the
computation time needed was quite high.

Joerg